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Purton, Christopher R.

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Title Sub-Lieutenant (RCN(R))
Official Number U-61580
 
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Biography
He graduated in mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto and then a Master degree as a radio astronomer. He graduated with a PhD from Cambridge University.
 
Military Service
He was appointed as a Naval Cadet (UNTD) RCN(R) (With seniority dated 02/01/1957). He served in HMCS York for UNTD 1956-1957. He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant (RCN(R)). (He was released in 1959.)
 
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Chris Purton writesof himself: "As part of graduate work in Cambridge was sent to do experiments in Resolute Bay in the Canadian arctic, and at White Lake near Penticton. Worked at National Research Council in Ottawa after that, primarily involved with radio telescope in Algonquin Park. Taught at York University, physics and astronomy for a number of years. Research there involved using radio telescopes in Canada, USA, Puerto Rico, and Australia, main outcome of which was an understanding of how planetary nebulae are formed (it's a wind phenomenon, not explosive). From there returned to National Research Council but now based at the radio observatory at White Lake. I've lived in the Okanagan for 27 years except for a 3-year posting to Hawaii to work with the submillimetre wavelength telescope (the James Clerk Maxwell telescope, aka JCMT) on Mauna Kea."
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD); http://www.untd.org/; http://www.mksp.ca/pages/misc/bio/speakers/cpurtonbio.php;
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